eHealth taxonomy Niilo SARANUMMI VTT, Tampere, Finland Contact:

VISION Medical Devices and eHealth Applications must be clearly and simply identifiable through a limited number of key-words (or identifiers) For Medical Devices, GMDN nomenclature is the basis for this identification. UDI (Unique Device Identifier) will use GMDN. This work has to be completed for the hundreds of thousands medical devices used throughout Europe. eHealth is a large domain including: Clinical Medical Records, Hospital Information Systems, Remote Patient Monitoring, Ambient Assisted Living, TeleHealth, Mobile Health, Connected Devices, … and Big Health Data. An eHealth application must be clearly and simply identifiable. An eHealth nomenclature has to de developed.

VISION E-health: alliances between pharmaceutical and IT companies boost the market PARIS, January 22, 2016 (TICsanté) - The profusion of partnerships between pharmaceutical companies and digital companies omen "the arrival on the market of medicinal coupled to a digital offering," and raises new questions in terms of support, has estimated Pierre Leurent, cofounder of the company Voluntis, January 20 during a debate organized by the Pharma licensing club France (AHP). “The supply of pharmaceutical companies will rapidly evolve in the coming years by further integrating technological devices to facilitate monitoring of treatment by patients” An eHealth nomenclature has to de developed.

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WHAT To build a eHealth Taxonomy There are (too) many definitions of eHealth, but no shared common definition. The domain is large, including: Clinical Medical Records, Hospital Information Systems, Clinical Information Systems, Clinical Decision Support Systems, … Remote Patient Monitoring Systems TeleHealth: Teleconsultation, Telesurveillance, Telemedicine, Telesurgery Ambient Assisted Living, Homecare, TeleCare Mobile Health, Connected Devices, Connected Health Big Health Data … Several Dimensions: Technical Medical: Tele-Cardiology, Tele-Radiology, Tele-Psychiatry, Wellbeing… Health professionals, Patients, Procurers, Global population Connection with medical devices

WHY eHealth is partly a mature and partly a growing, innovative domain. A Taxonomy becomes indispensable: To allow the classification of scientific projects, papers, prototypes and products To identify the research teams, their domains of interest, their leaders To identify the industrial companies involved in specific domains of eHealth To identify the experts in the various fields of eHealth, both technical and medical To communicate with non-experts (policy makers, hospital managers, communication managers, patients, population, etc.) To promote scientific and industrial partnerships at European level

HOW The European Commission should take the lead of creating a eHealth Nomenclature (Taxonomy). By organising a first workshop with international experts from various origins to organise the workplan. By organising Working Groups on thematic issues By providing financial support for this project through a call for a proposal By building a comprehensive taxonomy available on the EU website, allowing contributions and co-operations between the different actors.

ACTIONS A Task group to identify the different dimensions of eHealth and propose a first skeleton for this taxonomy. To propose a CSA Action within the H2020 Programme In cooperation with: Scientific societies (EFMI, EAMBES, IMIA, …) WHO European Medical Societies and Associations Industries International experts (Identify the role of the NLM (National Library of Medicine))

EXPECTED IMPACTS A common language and common key-words supports the communication and collaboration between researchers, developers, industrials, stakeholders It will improve the projects’ interdisciplinarity A standard taxonomy facilitates the categorisation of projects It contributes to the economic growth (through funding and reimbursement process) of the domain Note: The taxonomy is a continuous process that must be open to evolve based on new ideas and new innovations in the domain.

Thank you for your attention Niilo Saranummi VTT, Tampere, Finland